Alert archive / Florida / Red Flag Warnings in 2008
Red Flag Warning 13, NWS Mobile, AL
NWS Mobile, AL issued this red flag warning at Feb 7, 2008, 4:37 AM CST for Walton County, Florida. It took effect at Feb 7, 2008, 12:00 PM CST. It was in force for 17 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Feb 7, 2008, 4:37 AM CST (10:37 UTC)
- In effect from
- Feb 7, 2008, 12:00 PM CST
- Expired
- Feb 7, 2008, 12:17 PM CST
- In force
- 17 min
- Issued by
- NWS Mobile, AL
County Walton County, FL
The radar
The Eglin Afb radar (KEVX), 25 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 10:39 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Eglin AFB/Valpar, FL (KVPS), launched 00:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 35 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 0 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- No buoyant parcel
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1559 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 63 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -54 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 77 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000 WWUS84 KMOB 071037 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 437 AM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...A RED FLAG WARNING IS IN EFFECT THIS AFTERNOON DUE TO EXPECTED LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE... .A DRIER AIRMASS HAS MOVED OVER THE AREA...WITH AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES EXPECTED TO DROP TO AROUND 30 PERCENT OVER THE AREA. FLZ001>006-008-072000- /O.NEW.KMOB.FW.W.0013.080207T1800Z-080208T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 437 AM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS ISSUED A RED FLAG WARNING...WHICH IS IN EFFECT FROM NOON TODAY TO 6 PM CST THIS AFTERNOON. AFTERNOON RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES ARE EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR MORE THAN FOUR HOURS THIS AFTERNOON OVER THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE. A RED FLAG WARNING MEANS THAT CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE EITHER OCCURRING NOW...OR WILL SHORTLY. A COMBINATION OF LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY...AND WARM TEMPERATURES WILL CREATE EXPLOSIVE FIRE GROWTH POTENTIAL. $$
1 follow-up statement
000 WWUS84 KMOB 071817 RFWMOB RED FLAG WARNING NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOBILE AL 1217 PM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING FOR THE WESTERN FLORIDA PANHANDLE THAT WAS IN EFFECT FOR THIS AFTERNOON... .THE SURFACE HUMIDITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS THIS AFTERNOON...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. FLZ001>006-008-071930- /O.CAN.KMOB.FW.W.0013.000000T0000Z-080208T0000Z/ INLAND ESCAMBIA-COASTAL ESCAMBIA-INLAND SANTA ROSA- COASTAL SANTA ROSA-INLAND OKALOOSA-COASTAL OKALOOSA- COASTAL WALTON- 1217 PM CST THU FEB 7 2008 ...RED FLAG WARNING IS CANCELLED... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOBILE HAS CANCELLED THE RED FLAG WARNING. THE SURFACE HUMIDITY IS NOT EXPECTED TO DROP BELOW 35 PERCENT FOR MORE THAN 4 HOURS THIS AFTERNOON...THEREFORE THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN CANCELLED. $$
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.